When your Tailor fishing what is your preferred method?

Do you use a sinker with gangs and soak your mulie?

Or

Do you use gangs without a sinker and slowly wind it in like a lure?

Which works better?

Took the old voyager out for about half a day and on returning I noticed a shit load of water come out the bung hole when I undid it after retrieving at the ramp. Stopped for some beers and when walking back I saw 2 jets of water about 5mm thick pissing out from underneath the boat more towards the front of the boat . Luckily it was parked at an angle with the bow lower than the stern otherwise I wouldnt have seen the leaks. Holes are about 10cm apart. Have bought 1m2 of fibreglass mat (225g chopped strand mat) a tin of polyester resin and catalyst dropper bottle from whitworths. Was thinking I should put a small patch separately on each hole then a large patch to cover both holes. Never done apatch job on fibreglass and abit worried about the patch basically ripping off when Im going flat out. Should I cut the patches in a round pattern or with a sharp point in the direction the boat goes to try to reduce the water drag  any tips suggestions gratefully accepted.     

 Im headin to the states over December January.

i was wondering where has anyone been before and bought decent gear (reels, lures, tackle)?

i always find myself looking at things in the states online so i figured whilst i was there i may aswel grab some gear.

Florida a good place to start?

please feel free to share to share cities or areas to try.

**Edit- I'm talkin places to actually go to while in America?

thanks in advance

jess

Anyone having any luck at the ASI groyne or the woodman point rocks. If so what have u been catching?
Cheers

Having been converted to Sashimi years ago I have tried heaps of seafood as sashimi.

IMO in order the best is -

Scallops - sliced thin

Prawn - clean and cut into cubes

Squid - cleaned body, sliced into very thin rings

Tuna - so far YFT and SBFT is the only quality tuna I have tried. Would love to see what the fus is about Atlantic bluefin, but jikes it is pricy

Coral trout - sensational white flesh raw.

Anyone tried anything else exotic they can recommend. Have tried most fish caught of WA and some are good, others, well - taste better cooked.

Hey all
Anyone have a small fiberglass tinnie they wana sell cheap!

 I'm wondering if you can still buy these I have looked in fishing shop but haven't seen them I am going up to exmouth and have read all the advice from you guys and you recommend them but can't find them 

Hi folks, I have a week holidays to kill so I am looking at heading north for a quick fishing trip.
I am chasing ideas on where & when to go for some good L/B fishing like Quobba etc.
I am thinking of dragging up a camper trailor around the end of August to save the hastles of booking chalet style accomidation.
Been boat fishing north to Exmouth for about 14 years, but do like the L/B for a change.
Thanx in advance for your help.
cheers Rob

anyone in Melbourne get any land based snapper today?

all seriousness, I hope the storm doesn't do too much damage.

http://www.theage.com.au/photogallery/national/clique/cold-front-hits-victoria-20140623-3aola.html?aggregate=&selectedImage=0

I love the pic of the guys fishing off the jetty.

Hi All

I am off to ningaloo/exmouth in september and im chasing as much info and insight into trying to catch my first marlin from my boat.

I am a noob when it comes to trolling as we havnt really done it before.

I will be taking a couple of outfits set up for just trolling for macks and hopefully a marlin. I already have a couple Tyrnos 30s so will be spooling them with mono Not sure weather to go 30lb or 50lb though? Do i have half a chance if a marlin does decide to take the lure on these reels or do i need to run 50w reels?

After reading most topics about it in the search function i will be dropping into Oceanside to get some richter soft oscars and soft grassys.

Can any one help me with what i will need? And some advice to a noob to help catch our first marlin

Cheers Jayce

 Hi,

I have a small job in mandurah, I am getting a security screen installed on the front door. We have a normal globe just outside the front door and need to replace with a down light, are there any sparks that can do a cash job. Prob only take 20 mins as house is only 6 months old, heaps of room in roof.

 Anyone had any luck recently, havent been in ages and just wondering where i might have a chance,

Cheers, Andrew

 Hi just wondering if anyone knows of any good landbased spots between freo and rocky to head to tomoz ? 

tried point peron month ago but went blind and pretty sure we wasted our time in a poor spot.

Also tips on rigs , lures etc would be appreciated.

Tried bait , metal slices and squidgeys but to no avail .. them stick baits any good ?

would relly like to know what to specifically target and not be switching set up all day

cheers Kev 

 Hi I'm trying to get In to saltwater lure fishing and was wondering were some good south of the river tailor spots would be I was thinking the reefs around point peron 

 Hello all, I just need some help I have a Furuno 585 with a 600w and wanting to update my transducer to a 1kw I fish western port bay & port Phillip bay Melbourne , also I do some deep sea fishing as we'll chasing tuna & marlin can someone tell me which transducer would be ideal I have looked at tm258 , tm260 & tm270 just wanted to which one works the best. Would like to know the differences on these 1kw transducers and does anyone have settings for a furuno 585 for fishing vic hope someone can help me on this issue that I have cheers karl

Has anyone tried smoking squid before.

jim

 Hi everyone. In Saturday morning I am planning to do a bit of tailor fishing with lures and mulies at trigg but when I looked at the swell for trigg I thought there was no chance of catching a tailor. So does anybody know a good beach for tailor fishing for Saturday?

So who here eats the squid tentacles?

Recently i've taken some mates out to get a feed but when it came time to clean them they either wanted to keep the tentacles for bait or throw them away

If you coat and fry them up I reckon they can be tastier than the rings

Getaway Outdoors Bentley is Running its yearly Sailfish Safari to Rompin in Malaysia.

We have an opportunity for a limited few to join this year's trip. We will take you to a tropical location for a total of 8 days. The safari will include all transfers and accommodation.

You will have a couple of days to tour KL to take in the sites, shopping and cuisine. After enjoying your time in KL it is time to go and get your reel screaming!

In Rompin all meals are included...yes, breakfast, lunch and dinner! We have 4 full days in Rompin on the water chasing Sailfish. Other by catch of Mackerel, Queen fish and Cobia.

You can bring your own rods and reels or we can supply them for you, all terminal tackle is included. We highly suggest you bring your favourite poppers and stick baits!

This is a fully guided tour with nothing for you to worry about as we have done all the work!
The package is only $2700 Per Person Twin Share. This does not include airfares.

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For more details please contact Glen on 9356 5177, we depart Wednesday 17th September and return the 24th September 2014.
Bookings will close end of July 2014.

Went down the beach for a quick fish last night and the Mrs caught a nice 70cm+ Mulloway and all I got was a bloody Wobbegong!
About time she starts baiting her own hooks I reckon.....LOL

Thinking of heading out in the boat tomorrow but I havent really fished in winter before. Ive got plenty of warm clothing but i usually get around in the boat barefoot. With it being in the low 0's the next few days im a bit worried im going to be getting around on a couple of ice blocks! Has anyone got any tricks to keep your feet warm especially with getting a bit wet launching and retrieving?

 Any reports from the rockwalls?  There was a small army at Mindarie yesterday.  I hope sombody did well.

G'day all,

I have just come back from a 10 day fishing trip at Exmouth and I now know how bad the shark problem is up there. I found some pretty good ground not too far from Tantas and decided to give it a drop. Out of our total hook ups I'd say only approximately 15-20% were landed and at some stages we could not get any fish up at all. If the sharks weren't there we would have bagged out in no time. I spoke to some of the locals and they mentioned there's talk of perhaps attempting to thin out the numbers however, they said it would cause conflict with the greenies and militant conservationists.

More often than not fisho's now have to sacrifice more fish to sharks in the hope of landing a couple to get a feed. We tried moving spots multiple times but still the sharks kept taking our catch. In the 10 days we were there we would have lost 30-40 quality demersal species (Prob reds, spango's, chinamon, Robbos sea bream etc) and that must have an effect on the sustainability of fish stocks especially if everyone else is doing the same thing.

I believe some action needs to be considered before it starts to put people off visiting there for fishing trips (If it hasn't already). Why can't a commercial fishing boat start fishing there and sell it to fish n chip shops? They'd clean up!! Haha! It's a tricky problem because how many do you cull to confidently say it's enough?

Would be interesting to know your thoughts on this subject and if anyone else has been horrifically sharked like we just have.

Cheers

Ben

 Hi all

 I'm currently planning some work on the boat trailer, a few modifications to the roller and skid set up. Just having a look on the net for suppliers and wondering what places people would recommend for good prices and service.

thanks 

Reece

 hi guys, do u know if there is any fishing shop that will employ 13 year olds?

 Going to be in broome in a few days was just wondering where is good to go and what tackle to use

 Hi fellow fisho's 

just bought a diawa saltist hyper jig rod and was wondering your thoughts on a reel to match it up with I was thinking the stratic 8000 but not a 100 % any thoughts would be great 

 Looking at buying some fuel bladders for extended trips out of wyndham and am just wondering what are peoples thoughts on them...how safe are they, can anyone recommend a good brand

 Just looking at all the posts in tailor fishing over the past month or so and everyone is catching their pb tailor on lures. I was down at trigg last Sunday morning and everyone was using bait and not even a bite! So is it lures or bait for winter beach fishing for tailor? If it's lures are just normal stick baits all right?

 Hi guys trying to find out is there a technique for using braid when fishing have been trying it but find it hard to use and struggle to catch fish switch back to mono and catch them now I am feeling more bites with braid but find it hard to hook them would there be something I'm doing wrong or is it something you have to get use too.  

Thanks  for any help